Manufacturing
Manufacturing Basics
What Is the Manufacturing Module? The Manufacturing module in iVendNext is the operational backbone for any retail business that produces, processes, or assembles the goods it sells. It is not a standalone factory management system — it is a ...
BOM and Kits
The Bill of Materials — The Design Document for Every Product In iVendNext Manufacturing, nothing gets made without a Bill of Materials. The BOM is the foundational document that defines exactly what goes into a finished good — every raw material, ...
Production Planning
Why Production Planning Matters for Retailers For a retailer who manufactures, the gap between what customers are ordering and what the production floor can actually deliver is where margin leaks, relationships break down, and working capital gets ...
Shop Floor Execution
From Work Order to Finished Good Production planning tells you what to make and when. Shop floor execution is where that plan becomes reality. In iVendNext, the shop floor execution layer covers everything from the moment a work order is created to ...
Subcontracting
What Is Subcontracting? Not every production process needs to happen in-house. For many retail businesses with manufacturing operations, certain steps — specialised processing, finishing, packaging, or assembly — are more efficiently handled by a ...